Homeschool Greek Level 1

Build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. Students gain the confidence to master basic conversational skills in Greek. Level 1 assumes no prior knowledge of Greek, and parent administrative tools provide parents with the necessary tools to lesson plan, monitor, and report on student progress.

What You Get
Sample Topics
Parent Administration Tools
Greek Learning Tips
System Requirements

What's Inside the Box?

Application CD
Language CD
Student Management System CD
Illustrated User Guide - Provides complete instructions to help your child get the most from Rosetta Stone
Curriculum Text - Contains a table of contents for each level, scripts for each lesson, and an index to all words in the program
Handbook for Teachers: Homeschool Edition - A guide to lesson planning, student tracking, and effectively using the Rosetta Stone program in a home education environment
Installation Guide

Level 1 Examples

Sample Topics

A Sample of the Topics You’ll Find

People and talking
Directions: “How do I get to…”
Affirmative and negative verb forms
Food, eating, and drinking
Family relationships
Telling time
Numbers to 100
Clothing and dress
Vehicles, furniture, clothing, and instruments
Shapes, colors, and locations

Parent Administrative Tools

Every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 Language program includes Parent Administrative Tools seamlessly integrated into the program. The Administrative tools assist parents in lesson planning, viewing student progress, and generating reports.

Lesson Planning

For many homeschooling parents, teaching a foreign language is a daunting task. Lesson planning can be difficult because many parents have never taught a foreign language course, and often times they do not speak the language the student is learning.

Rosetta Stone^® makes lesson planning easy with predefined lesson plans to help parents enroll students into their desired lesson plan based on their learning objective.

Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 offers a Full Year Lesson Plan and Alternative Paths of Study to provide you with the flexibility to meet your student’s language learning needs.

Full Year Curriculum

The Full Year Curriculum is intended to guide a student through one level of a language in a scholastic year. This curriculum integrates a comprehensive path through the software, suggested Cultural Activities from the Parent’s Guide and instruction materials to strengthen the student’s language learning experience. Though students will progress at different paces naturally, this path is great for students who wish to use each Level of Rosetta Stone for a one year course.

Alternate Paths of Study

There are eleven different paths of study to choose from based on your student’s learning objectives. Alternate paths exist for different skill focuses, such as listening and speaking, or reading and writing focus. While different students will progress at different paces through the program, generally by choosing an alternative path, students will progress through the program much more quickly than with the Full Year curriculum.

Testing

With Rosetta Stone^® Homeschool, Students are tested periodically as they move through their assigned lesson plans. Students automatically advance from exercises focused on specific language skills to tests.

As students progress through their assigned lesson plan, and reach the end of a lesson, they are tested with a review exercise, or test. Depending on the student’s score, the review exercise will then be repeated at a later time in the lesson plan. A student who scores lower will see the review exercise more quickly than a student who scores higher. Eventually, the review exercise will no longer be repeated after a student achieves a satisfactory score.

One of the greatest features of Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 is the Milestone Activity. Once a student has completed a Unit of material, they must complete a Milestone Activity. Milestones force the student to actually speak into the microphone and participate in conversation on screen. Milestone completion is essential to proceeding to the next Unit in Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3.

Reporting

The built-in reporting tool gives parents the ability to view, print, and export student results. Information available in the report includes:

Exercises the student has completed
Current lesson progress
Scores achieved on exercises and tests
Time spent learning

More information regarding lesson planning, testing and reporting as well as a detailed sample schedule and cultural activities can be found in the Parent’s Guide included with every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3.

About Greek

The Greek language is mainly spoken in Greece and Cyprus. Greek communities around the globe also speak Greek as either their first or second language. An estimated 15 million people speak Greek worldwide.

Greek Learning Tips

Every word in Greek is marked with a stress. This indicates where the emphasis is placed when the word is pronounced. Words with only one syllable remain unstressed.
In Greek, every letter corresponds to one distinct sound. There are a few exceptions that Rosetta Stone will help you learn.
There are three genders, or categories, of Greek nouns: masculine, feminine, and neuter.
Greek noun, adjective, and pronoun endings change depending on their position in the sentence, their gender, and whether they are singular or plural.
In Greek, the pronoun is usually dropped from sentences because its meaning is conveyed by the ending of the verbs. Pronouns are used mainly for emphasis.
To convey politeness, Greek speakers will use the plural form of a verb.
In written Greek, a question is followed by a ‘;’ punctuation marker.

Requirements for Rosetta Stone User Workstations

Windows (32-bit editions only) 2000, XP or Vista, Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5
512 MB RAM
1 GHz or faster processor speed
600 MB free hard-drive space (per level)
16-bit sound card
800 x 600 display resolution (1024 x 768 recommended)
Internet or phone connection required for product activation
Speech recognition feature requires a headset microphone (USB recommended)
16X CD-ROM Drive (for installation)

Note for Microsoft® Windows Vista™ users:

Current Rosetta Stone® products have been engineered to install and run on the Windows Vista operating system. Some 3rd party components used in Rosetta Stone products have not been certified by Microsoft as ‘Vista Compliant’. Accordingly, you may encounter some Vista-related operating issues. Rosetta Stone technical support may or may not be able to resolve these Vista-related issues. Rosetta Stone hereby disclaims any representations, warranties, guaranties and conditions with respect to the compatibility of the Rosetta Stone products with the Windows Vista operating systems.